earthfruit / erika roos is a queer, mixed-race, mixed-species artist, creature, and organism. through tactile, experimental practices with 16mm film and site-sensitive installation, erika contends with how bodies (im)materialize, move, touch, and shift, with attention to complex, interspecies, inter-elemental relationships.
erika is currently working on a two-channel 16mm film installation that explores entanglement, material interdependence, and generative loss. with celluloid film as performer, and projector-celluloid-screen as organism, this work considers embodiment through film, within and beyond (moving) image. accompanying this work is an experimental chapbook: an extension of the filmic apparatus, and life of the filmic performance-installation, (re)presented through print. the chapbook is a contour and a counter; a reproducible form of the irreproducible.
their research and practice have been supported by the joseph naiman fellowship, the suraj israni cinematic fellowship, and the russell grant foundation, as well as the lake studios residency in berlin, monson arts residency in maine, and ox-bow goes to hell in michigan. they have presented work and performances at bread + salt (san diego), working title (san diego), the kemper art museum (st. louis), st. louis art museum, and lake studios (berlin), among others. they are a previous choreographer-in-residence with resilience dance company (st. louis) and a former dancer and teaching artist with consuming kinetics dance company (st. louis).